Quiz 3

1. Will recently recovered from having ulcers. He had care from family and friends and, as a result, recovered faster than expected. This may be due to:

1. biochemical activity.
2. behavioral changes.
3. personality style.
4. social support.

2.  People with _____ are said to be consistently angry, cynical, driven, impatient, competitive, and ambitious.

1. Type A personality style
2. Type B personality style
3. factitious disorder
4. conversion disorder

3.  Pierre, a 32-year-old male, feels terrible. He is sad, tired, and depressed, but he refuses to show it. This is consistent with the:

1. hormone theory.
2. Artifact theory.
3. quality-of-life theory.
4. social pressure

4.  A counselor following the Los Angeles Suicide Prevention Center approach fills out a lethality scale while listening to a caller. This is what task of the approach?

1. Establishing a positive relationship
2. Understanding and clarifying the problem
3. Assessing suicide potential
4. Assessing and mobilizing the caller’s resources

5.   How do death darers primarily differ from those in Shneidman’s other categories of people who attempt suicide?

1. They are ambivalent about their deaths.
2. They intend to end their lives with their actions.
3. They believe that death will not end their existence.
4. They believe they are merely speeding up an ongoing process

6.  Which individual is LEAST likely to suffer from factitious disorder?

1. a man who works as a full-time paramedic
2. a woman who works as a nurse or a medical assistant
3. a man who has a subscription to the New England Journal of Medicine, even though he does not work in the medical field
4. a woman who underwent successful surgery for ovarian cancer

7.  When Marigold sees her healthcare provider for treatment of an allergy, her healthcare provider tells her that her symptoms are factitious. Marigold will most likely:

1. create new symptoms that are more difficult to disprove.
2. produce false medical records to support her original symptoms.
3. leave the facility and immediately seek treatment from a different physician.
4. take measures that increase the intensity of her original symptoms

8. All the following are part of Beck’s theory of depression EXCEPT

1. the cognitive triad.
2. automatic thoughts.
3. maladaptive attitudes.
4. symbolic loss

9.  Focusing on the addition of positive activities to the life of a patient with depression is a behavioral technique known as:

1. behavioral contingency management.
2. behavioral cognition.
3. behavioral activation.
4. behavioral confrontation

10.  Researchers who study suicide may interview the friends and family of someone who committed suicide, with the intention of better understanding the person’s past. These researchers are conducting a(n):

1. retrospective analysis.
2. pseudoexperimental study.
3. archival analysis.
4. retrograde life detail inspection (RLDI).

11.  At a suicide prevention center, you hear a counselor say, “Who can you think of who might be able to come over and stay with you for a few hours?” Which of the goals and techniques of suicide prevention does the quote BEST represent?

1. assessing suicide potential
2. understanding and clarifying the problem
3. establishing a positive relationship
4. assessing and mobilizing the caller’s resources

12.  A person is on many different medications to manage their many chronic conditions. The person often mismanages these medications, which eventually leads to their death. This death would probably be considered a

1. chronic suicide.
2. parasuicide.
3. suicide.
4. subintentional death

13.   The spouse of an elderly individual in the United States has recently died; the individual was experiencing clinical depression before the spouse’s death. The suicide risk for this individual is:

1. moderately high; death of a spouse, but not depression, is related to an elevated suicide risk.
2. very high; both death of a spouse and depression are related to an elevated suicide risk.
3. moderately high; depression, but not death of a spouse, is related to an elevated suicide risk.
4. normal; suicide risk among the elderly is largely independent of these factors

14.  Thomas always checks his blood pressure multiple times a day. Whenever he sees any change in numbers, he believes it is a sign of a developing heart attack. This is an example of:

1. Munchausen syndrome.
2. hysterical disorder.
3. body dysmorphic disorder.
4. illness anxiety disorder

15.  Treatment for suicide attempters:

1. appears not to be effective.
2. typically involves medical and psychological care.
3. is provided in approximately 90 percent of all cases.
4. shows that group counseling is most successful

16. About how many unsuccessful suicide attempts occur annually in the United States?

1. 80,000
2. 120,000
3. 650,000
4. 1 million

17. If stress continues for an extended period of time, _____ give an inhibitory message to lymphocytes

1. collagen and cytokines
2. cytokines and norepinephrine
3. norepinephrine and corticosteroids
4. cytokines and corticosteroids

18.  Cognitive-behavioral theorists propose that the physical symptoms of conversion and somatic disorders bring _____ to sufferers

1. emotional relief
2. punishment
3. escape
4. rewards

19. Which is NOT a component of Edwin Shneidman’s definition of suicide?

1. It involves conscious effort.
2. It is self-inflicted.
3. It results from depression or emotional distress.
4. It involves indirect effort

20. Which statement is TRUE regarding war veterans’ risk of suicide once they return home?

1. War veterans are about twice as likely as nonveterans to commit suicide.
2. War veterans are no more likely to commit suicide than are nonveterans.
3. War veterans are a little less likely to commit suicide than are nonveterans.
4. Family members of war veterans, not the veterans themselves, are at a higher suicide risk